Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher have lived very different lives ever since their £120million divorce come to light.
When the exes mutually announced the end of their 14-year marriage at the end of 2023, they vowed to prioritise their privacy.
Two years later, once their divorced was finalised in June this year, the pair pledged to keep ‘great respect for each other and remain friends’.
A statement read: ‘Our divorce has now been finalised. We are proud of all we’ve achieved together and, continuing our great respect for each other, we remain friends and committed to co-parenting our wonderful children. We ask for the media to continue to respect our children’s privacy.’
But it appears the exes have had different views on dating after divorce, with Sacha, 54, spotted enjoying a night out with an OnlyFans model and Isla, 49, declaring she is ‘not ready’ to date.
Only three months after Sacha and Isla confirmed their divorce was complete, it was reported the Borat star had moved on with a younger model.
Sacha Baron Cohen, 54, and Isla Fisher, 49, have lived very different lives ever since their £120million divorce come to light (pictured together in 2017)
It appears the exes have had different views on dating after divorce, with Sacha spotted enjoying a night out with an OnlyFans model and Isla declaring she is ‘not ready’ to date (pictured in 2016)
Sacha was spotted with 27-year-old Hannah Palmer who he met at film director Taika Waititi’s 50th birthday party in Ibiza last month.
Friends of the star later insisted he wasn’t dating Hannah, Sacha has yet to comment.
Sacha’s approach to dating is a stark contrast to Isla’s career-focused and commitment to re-build her life and throw herself into work.
Behind the brave-face, Isla has been silently re-building her life ‘from grassroots level’, she recently revealed in an emotional interview.
Speaking about her divorce, Isla admitted creating her new home has been ‘tough’.
‘I’m enjoying this new version of my life. I don’t need to party in my house anymore. I love to get in the bath. I’ll light some candles, bring in my laptop and put on something on Netflix. That’s as exciting as it gets.’
She also told ELLE Decoration about the moment her furniture arrived: ‘I did have a bit of a cry because this was my first time as a single woman, being in a home of my own.’
Isla previously revealed how she had been picking up the pieces in the wake of the split, admitting that the Carl Jung method had helped her heal in a healthy way.
The Jungian method is a therapeutic approach that explores unconscious forces, dreams, symbols and archetypes, aiming towards self-understanding, self-integration and fulfilment.
When the exes mutually announced the end of their 14-year marriage at the end of 2023, they vowed to prioritise their privacy
Two years later, once their divorced was finalised in June this year, the pair pledged to keep ‘great respect for each other and remain friends’
Only three months after Sacha and Isla confirmed their divorce was complete, it was reported the Borat star had moved on with a younger Only Fans model (pictured)
‘This is totally personal and I say this with the caveat as it worked for me, but the concept of processing stuff and taking your time, thinking about it again and again, you don’t really feel better that way,’ she told The Australian.
Instead, the Wedding Crashers star kept moving following the divorce, saying ‘yes’ to any opportunity that came her way and throwing herself into her work.
The move has seen Isla keeping busy on film sets, staying active in her community and reinventing herself creatively after what she calls a parental ‘power pause’.
‘It’s amazing to me that at this point in my life I’ve got this opportunity, in a positive way, to reinvent what the last act of my life is now from the ground up,’ she said, gushing that she loved returning to work.
The actress went on to explain she didn’t fall out of love with acting during her hiatus from the screen, she was just more in love with motherhood, and still is.
But now, thanks to the extra time that co-parenting brings, she can do both.
‘For most parents, we focus on our kids and it’s so divine and magical and so absorbing, but now I have some time where the kids aren’t with me, so I get some time to think about what the future might hold for me.’
The actress has made sporadic film appearances in recent years. She had voices in Back to the Outback in 2021 and Strays in 2023 and had a role in the 2024 film The Present, her first on-camera film appearance in four years.
Sacha’s approach to dating is a stark contrast to Isla’s career-focused and commitment to re-build her life and throw herself into work
After her split from Sacha became public however, Isla appeared in the big budget film Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy.
She has four films all due to be released either this year or next, marking her busiest working period since 2016 when she appeared in Keeping Up with the Joneses, Noctural Animals and Grimsby with then-husband Sacha.
Isla is due to appear in heist film Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, coming-of-age drama Jay Kelly and action comedy Playdate with Kevin James.
Most recently, she was spotted filming another upcoming comedy Spa Weekend in her native Australia alongside Leslie Mann and Anna Faris.
Earlier this year, Isla admitted she is not looking to date again anytime soon in the wake of her divorce.
‘That’s not on my to-do list. I’m not ready to think about any of that,’ she told The Sunday Times.
Isla explained her own parents separated when she was nine-years-old and admitted their peaceful arrangement was what she now strives for.
She said: ‘It was very harmonious, I don’t ever remember them fighting about anything… they were very inclusive of each other.’
When asked if that was the ‘blueprint’ for her separation, Isla said: ‘That’s the dream.’
After it emerged that Sacha and Hannah enjoyed dinner together last month, sources have now confirmed to the Daily Mail that the meet was not what it seemed.
Unlike Sacha, (pictured in 2024) Isla admitted she is not looking to date again anytime soon in the wake of her divorce
A source said: ‘Someone seems to have been making mischief and trying put two and two together to make five.
‘They have met a couple of times and have mutual friends and got on – and Sacha has given her some advice regarding Hollywood and acting.
‘But this was not a date. They were both going to the same event so they went to dinner beforehand. And once at the event, they went their separate ways.’
Sacha and OnlyFans model Hannah were seen leaving a restaurant after having dinner together, before making separate exits, but getting into the same Cadillac Escalade limo.
Snaps from the evening see Hannah putting on a very leggy display in a leopard print minidress and knee-high boots as she leaves, before Sacha walks out in a colourful striped shirt and a flat cap.
While an onlooker described the pair’s chemistry to the The Sun, saying: ‘They spent two hours inside and seemed deep in conversation. Despite the age difference they were getting on really well and seemed to have a lot to talk about.’
An insider added to the publication: ‘Sacha and Hannah would have been introduced at [Taika’s] party. It was a big sit-down dinner party before they went dancing in the villa’s nightclub.
‘Hannah is a super fun girl and is as clever as she is beautiful. Sacha is a very lucky man to have bagged a date with her. She’s a real catch.’
